16 And Job 54ed after this a hundred and forty years, and saw his children and his children's children to four generations.

In place of ויּרא, the Keri gives the unusual Aorist form ויּראה, which, however, does also occur elsewhere (e.g., 1 Samuel 17:42). The style of the primeval histories, which we here everywhere recognise, Genesis 50:23 (comp. Isaiah 53:10), is retained to the last words.